Complimentary Banquet Tendered to Eugene L. Ashley, President, Hudson River Water Power Co. by His Friends.

Saratoga Springs, NY: [publisher not identified], 1903. Ephemera. 2 leaves + 3 pieces of ephemera (a printed silk ribbon, a card, and an invitation), cardstock tied with a red silk ribbon. Very Good.

Menu and ephemera related to a dinner given in honor of the industrialist Eugene Lionel Ashley, who owned a paper plant near Saratoga Springs and had just overseen the Spier Falls dam begin generating power earlier in September. Ashley's Hudson River Water Power Company owned various dams, including the Mechanicville Dam South, which, at the time of its decommissioning in 1997, had been one of the oldest continuously operating power plants in the United States.

Cat.No: 340772

Price: $35.00